During a recent series on MOOCs and testing, the only subject I didn’t get to was peer-grading, the mechanism some massive classes are using to allow students to submit assignments that cannot be machine scored (such as written papers or other “artifacts” whose grading still requires the subtlety of the human mind). We’ll put aside […]
Cheers and Jeers for MOOCs!
Just about everyone I know sent me a copy of this piece that appeared in the most recent New York Times Sunday Week in Review. The fellow who wrote the piece (A.J. Jacobs, Editor at Large for Esquire Magazine) shares my journalistic passion for reporting from the inside. (Perhaps he also grew up reading Black […]
Catching Up
While the first six weeks of this blog were dedicated to subjects that each required a full week of entries to flesh out (an introduction to what this project is about, course components, course providers, time, testing, and credit), it’s now time to switch to a new mode where I’ll be talking about different subjects […]
HuffPo, MOOC News and Reviews
Well one of the more bizarre weeks ever experienced by we Bostonians is thankfully ending without more bloodshed. Just a quick note as the city recovers (and I try to play catch up) that highlights a few links. First, the latest Huffington Post Degree of Freedom entry can be seen here. Second, a great new […]
The MOOC Credit Paradox
This might need to be a short posting, given that I’m in the midst of that multi-tasking that I recommend students never do while working on something important. But as I write this, one of the two suspects in last Monday’s Marathon bombing is at large, and last seen a couple of towns over tossing […]
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